Asamankese

Asamankese is a town in southern Ghana and the capital of the West Akim Municipal District in the Eastern Region, with an approximate settlement population of 39,435 in 2013. It lies on the main highway to Kumasi and Accra in the interior, and its people celebrate the Obuodwan festival. The town was founded and occupied by the Akwamu, who moved south and east from Dormaa around the 14th century; by oral tradition a succession dispute led the brass-smith Asare to leave and form a new state around a city called Asaremankesee, Asare's big state, now Asamankese. Settlers from Juaben in Ashanti later joined them after a revolt against the Golden Stool. The townspeople founded Asamankese Senior High School in 1963.